No BDS Apology for “Shoot the Jew” Chant

1. It’s bad enough a BDS rally at South Africa’s Witwatersrand University featured protesters chanting, “Shoot the Jew.” But Mohammed Desai, the head of South Africa’s BDS movement, poured more fuel to the fire when he told the student paper, the Wits Vuvuzela:

The coordinator of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), Muhammed Desai, said many African people in South Africa when using the word “Jews” meant it in the same way they would have during the eighties. “Just like you would say kill the Boer at funeral during the eighties it wasn’t about killing white people, it was used as a way of identifying with the apartheid regime”.

I don’t see how “Kill the Boer” is any less inciting than “Kill the Jew,” “Kill the black man,” or “Kill the Arab” in any context.

2. France released its intelligence squarely blaming Bashar Assad for carrying out a “massive and co-ordinated” chemical attack. Details at The Guardian.

Those still covering the civil war are united by a sense of duty to report on what is happening in the country. But given the risk of abduction and the prospect of drawn-out rescue operations that drain resources from our colleagues and endanger our fixers and friends, we are being forced to reassess the way we cover the ongoing conflict.

• PA-run media blames the US for the Syrian and Egyptian turmoil — and 9/11 for good measure. European diplomats told The Commentator the accusations will unnecessarily harm the Palestinian cause. More at Palestinian Media Watch.

• Hezbollah redeployed its forces ahead of a potential US strike, according to AFP.

• Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators are due to meet today. Thanks to the media blackout, the Jerusalem Post, doesn’t have much to report.

• Ben Gurion Airport was in a state of alert after Palestinians driving a stolen truck rammed through a security barrier.

The two people in the truck were apprehended but flights were briefly grounded as a precaution. Police believe the Palestinians stole the truck from a nearby town and took a wrong turn leading them to the airport. YNet coverage.

I once saw M. Desai’s Moslem dawa pamphlets and if it is the same person, he is using BDS as a stalking horse for some very militant Islam. Those who organise chants of “Kill….” are not in a civil campaign.

The Witwatersrand University, South Africa, coordinator of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), Muhammed Desai, is condemning his country, South Africa back into its primitive state BEFORE the dutch or the british arrived to bring vestiges of civilization. But, if that’s where the South Africans want to go back to, the observing western world will turn an accommodating blind eye. Just don’t look to the west to claim refugee status anywhere in the civilized world. We won’t allow our governments to let you in.